His Name Was Jason: 30 Years Of Friday The 13th Page #6

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sometimes seven hours

of makeup.

And it was 11 different appliances

that they glued to my face.

The bad part about it was

that as soon as they'd finished,

it was usually lunchtime

and l couldn't eat.

So they used to give me

Tiger's Milk through a straw.

Judie Aronson:
Jason in our film

was played by Ted White.

And his way

of keeping the character

was kind of separating himself

from everybody else.

l don't remember really him having

a conversation with anybody.

l actually turned it down

to begin with,

and later on l did accept it.

After l accepted it, l did go down

and rent two of the ''Jasons,''

and l watched Jason itself,

how he moved and so forth.

And l felt l'd like to play him

a little bit different.

l'd like for him

to move a little bit different.

Another way of doing it

would be the fast move,

to move faster,

and that's how l portrayed him.

That's what l wanted to do

with him.

Even when l was in full costume,

makeup, everything,

l stayed away

from the cast completely.

l'd sit by myself on the set.

l just stayed away

from everybody.

And l tried to keep in character

as much as possible.

l liked the mystique

of being by myself,

not being close to anybody.

The scene upstairs where

they hit me over the head

with a television set,

little did l know that that

TV set was gonna stay on my head.

l had no idea where l was.

l couldn't see out of that thing.

lt was just a hand feeling

for the stairway.

You know, l was offered

the fifth one and sixth one.

l could have done either one of them

and l turned 'em down.

l'm sorry now

that l did turn them down.

Morga:
ln ''5,'' l actually

played an impostor of Jason,

and l did have a couple moments

where l did

play the apparition

of Jason himself,

where those were supposedly

different Jason characters.

l just played Jason

through the whole movie.

ln the film, obviously,

they had to distinguish in some way

so they used the blue

for the marks on the mask

for the impostor Jason,

where when l did the actual Jason

l was wearing the real mask

with the red marks on it.

The makeup with this particular

character wasn't too intense.

The Jason character, though,

was a pullover mask

with the face cut out.

All they had to do

was darken my eyes

and then put the hockey mask

over it.

We never talked about this.

lt's really not in the script.

Any motivation--

there isn't any.

So l felt Roy was a little disturbed

to begin with.

The first time l put on

the green jumpsuit

and the boots

and l zipped them up,

l looked at myself in the mirror

and l thought, ''ls this me?''

Bartalos:

One of the exciting things for me

was the creation of Jason's mask.

So we took a hockey mask

and kind of customized it.

We basically redesigned

some of the ventilation holes.

We created basically

a new positive.

From the positive, we made

a big block rubber mold

and from that,

created what's called a buck,

a heavy-duty cement wedge that

on the top

of it has the veneer

of the hockey mask

At that point,

using a real heavy duty plastic,

we did what's called

vacuforming.

The vacuforming draws apart

and we pull it out and bang,

we get Jason's mask.

C.J. Graham:
When we portrayed it,

he got stronger.

Every opportunity

of a fight scene or a kill

enhanced his knowledge

of killing or his strength.

Every time he was shot and put down,

he came back stronger the next time.

You know, Tom was very adamant.

He did not want a machine on stage.

When you were on set,

he wanted to make sure

there was some human contact

and people could relate to it.

Jason just is indestructible.

When you put the costume on,

you really project it, and the projection had

to be through the body--

Just a simplistic little movement

would create fear.

As soon as the mask

comes down,

it's very simple

to get into the character.

Nice thing about it

is you get to kill 17, 18 people,

you don't go to prison.

Buechler:

Every scar, every rip, every tear

that Jason ever had was

in the Jason

that we created for ''Part Vll.''

As far as playing the character,

l wanted to just do what felt natural.

My goal was

to just add some more life

to the character,

even though he is kind of a zombie.

People ask me, ''Why does

the makeup change so much

from movie to movie? The hockey mask

changes and everything else.''

Basically, it's because it's

a different makeup-effects person

who designs it.

The first movie l did,

''Part Vll,''

the makeup was real extensive,

many pieces.

lt took about three

and a half hours a day.

lt was hard to work in,

but fantastic makeup.

Uber Jason--

it was an entire

one-piece suit

that did have a zipper

in the back, but very well concealed.

On the suit,

it limited my motion a lot

with the arm and the leg

that had the metallic pieces.

l still love the design

of that Uber Jason mask.

He brought a lot to the role.

No matter who directed him,

no matter what movie he was in,

you could tell Kane's Jason

from other people's Jason.

Having Kane Hodder

play Jason four times

really established him

as Jason.

l think stepping into it,

l was a little leery,

because a lot of the feedback

the fans were putting out there

was negative, l think,

in the beginning.

But then when the movie

came out,

it became very very positive.

They were big shoes,

but l'm a big guy.

l remember the first day

he showed up on the set,

the first night we shot him,

and l turned around,

and there he was in full glory.

l mean, his boots were

like this thick,

and then you put on

everything else that he's wearing

and he was 6'8''.

l'm not kidding you,

he scared the hell out of me.

My portrayal of Jason

showed another side

that you don't normally get to see.

ln ''Freddy vs. Jason,''

you see him actually interact

with his mother,

and you see him confronted by fears.

l just went back

to my childhood,

and l think l thought

a lot about Frankenstein--

not really alive,

but not really dead.

Even if you look at the movements,

the walk and stuff like that,

l think l used a little bit

of Frankenstein.

Even though people think

he just kind of stands there

and lumbers along

with his machete,

you have to feel

that there's a physical force

that could actually be as evil

and as powerful as he is.

Ew! Sorry, buddy.

l hope it was over quickly.

The truth is,

like this guy,

most people don't survive

their encounter

with our murderous mongoloid.

Still, there have been a few

that gave Jason quite a headache.

You know, the people that insist

on not going down without a fight.

lt's a small group,

but they certainly gave Jason

a big run for his money.

Or his machete.

So whether it's Alice or it's Ginny

or it's Chris or any of these girls

who make it to the end, they usually

have some common characteristics.

The most important

is their chastity,

their purity.

They're generally not there

to just party.

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